{"id":4719,"date":"2012-05-11T11:07:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T11:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialandcocktail.co.uk\/?p=4719"},"modified":"2014-07-28T19:52:08","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T18:52:08","slug":"most-expensive-cocktail-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialandcocktail.co.uk\/most-expensive-cocktail-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Expensive Cocktail in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you love cocktails, have a spare million in the bank and happen to be in Belfast some evening, Social and Cocktail<\/strong> recommends that you take a pop into the\u00a0City’s\u00a0 Merchant Hotel, where they will happily serve you up the most expensive cocktail in the world, at a mouth-watering \u00a3750!<\/p>\n

The cocktail in question is the legendary Mai Tai<\/a>\"Most<\/a>,<\/strong> which was created in 1944 at Trader Vics, a South Seas-style bar-and restaurant in Oakland, USA.<\/p>\n

The original Tiki-creation features: 2 ounces 17-year-old J. Wray & Nephew Jamaican rum, 1\/2 ounce French Garnier Orgeat, 1\/2 ounce Holland DeKuyper Orange Curacao, 1\/4 ounce rock candy syrup and the juice of one fresh lime.<\/p>\n

The twist comes in the fact that J. Wray & Nephew Jamaican rum is one of the rarest and most expensive alcohols in the world. According to The Merchant’s bar manager, Sean Muldoon, the hotel sourced a bottle of the ultra-rare 17-year-old J Wray & Nephew Jamaican Rum a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n

Since then it has been used as the base spirit of The Original Trader Vic’s Mai Tai on offer at the hotel, which at a cost of \u00a3750, was officially named the World’s Most Expensive Cocktail by The Guinness Book of Records.<\/p>\n

Sean proudly stated: “The Merchant Hotel is the only bar in the world that has the capacity to make the authentic article; no other establishment in the world has a bottle of the rum.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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